Milan City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1165
“I” Industrial District
1165.01 PURPOSE.
The "I" Industrial District is established to accommodate light industrial uses in the fields of manufacturing, processing, wholesaling and distributing. Light and heavy industry are relative terms. Their actual meaning is determined by the degree of industrialization of the community concerned and the prevailing community attitudes toward industrial development. For purposes of this Zoning Ordinance, light manufacturing development shall be construed to be an industrial development consisting primarily of uses listed in Section 1165.02
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(Ord. 270-09-02. Passed 9-10-02.)
1165.02 PERMITTED USES.
The following are permitted uses in the "I" Industrial District.
(a) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of such products as candy, cosmetics, wood products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical, toiletries and food products except the rendering or refining of fats or oils.
(b) Warehousing and wholesaling.
(c) Grain elevators.
(d) Research laboratories and offices.
(e) Utility substations.
(f) Railroad facilities.
(g) Contractors yards and storage facilities provided, however, that all equipment tools and facilities shall be neatly arranged or stored or kept within a suitable building.
(h) Manufacture of clothing, leather goods, and athletic equipment.
(i) Metal processing such as fabrication, stamping extrusion, welding, finishing, polishing and assembly of small products, such as:
(1) Cameras, clocks, jewelry, cutlery and kitchen utensils.
(2) Electrical equipment such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters and toys.
(3) Electrical equipment such as home radio and television, movie equipment, small electrical supplies and electrical components.
(4) Hand tools, dies, engineering, medical and musical instruments and similar small steel products.
(j) Plastic or rubber molding and extrusion.
(k) Soft drink processing plants.
(l) Other similar uses as determined by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 270-09-02. Passed 9-10-02.)
1165.03 CONDITIONALLY PERMITTED USES.
The following are conditionally permitted uses in the "I" Industrial District:
(a) Storage of petroleum products, chemical, fuel gas, etc.
(b) Incinerators and disposal plants, provided that such operations are solely for the purpose of disposal of by-products created as a result of an establishment's own manufacturing process and further provided that such operations shall be conducted within an enclosed structure, provided that noxious, toxic or corrosive fumes, gases, smoke, dust or fly ash shall not be emitted which shall be injurious to the property, vegetation, or health of the people residing in the nearest residential district, and provided that odorous gases or other odorous matter shall not be emitted in such quantities as to be offensive to the adjacent residential district.
(c) Adult entertainment business establishments.
(1) An adult entertainment business establishment shall not be located within five hundred (500) feet of the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a school, church, library, public park, tavern, bar or another adult entertainment business.
(2) An adult entertainment business establishment shall not be located within five (500) hundred feet of any residential district.
(3) An adult entertainment business establishment shall not be located within a structure or a portion thereof that already contains another adult entertainment business, a bar or tavern.
(4) Measure of distance. The required minimum distance between any two (2) adult entertainment business or to any bar or tavern shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior wall of the adult entertainment business to the closest property line of the school, public park, church, library or residential district.
(5) Signs.
A. Exterior painting. Buildings and structures shall not be painted or surfaced with garish colors or textures of any design that would simulate a sign or advertising message.
B. Advertisements, signs or any other exhibit depicting adult entertainment activities placed within the interior of buildings or premises shall be arranged or screened to prevent public viewing from outside such buildings or premises.
C. No outdoor loudspeakers or other outdoor sound equipment advertising or directing attention to an adult entertainment is allowed.
D. Upon order of the Village Administrator, graffiti appearing on any exterior surface of a building or premises, where graffiti is within public view shall be removed and that surface shall be restored within seventy-two (72) hours of notification to the owner or person in charge of the premises.
(Ord. 270-09-02. Passed 9-10-02.)
1165.04 AREA REGULATIONS.
(a) Minimum front yard depth shall be fifty (50) feet.
(b) Minimum rear yard depth shall be twenty-five (25) feet.
(c) Minimum side yard width shall be twenty-five (25) feet except where the side yard is adjacent to another thoroughfare, in which case a minimum of fifty (50) feet is then required.
(d) Height regulations shall be determined by the Planning Commission and the Fire Department, based on the capabilities of the public and private fire fighting equipment.
(Ord. 270-09-02. Passed 9-10-02.)